By Charlotte Spencer A Mississippi businessman was indicted January 12, 2021 for hoarding and price gouging PPE. Many who heard of such practices have found them distasteful, but did not realize they were actually illegal too. So does that mean there ought...

By Kathy Nicholl They meet in an unusual and rather unexpected setting — at a religious gathering. She takes her time and recounts to the judge in her child protection case what her father has done to her. The judge asks if...

By Nigel White Thirty years ago, in 1991, Louisiana became the fourth state to approve riverboat gaming, an event of particular significance to me, as I was hired as employee No. 2 in Baton Rouge, joining Casino Rouge as Vice President of...

By a Biometrica staffer A day after Easter, we take a look at data on arson- and explosive-related incidents across houses of worship in the U.S. in 2019. Although the report, published by the ATF, includes accidental and natural fires, we specifically...

By Charlotte Spencer Last week, on March 22, 67-year-old Gregory Paul Ulrich made a virtual 10-minute appearance in front of a Minnesota judge, who ordered what's called a "Rule 20 evaluation" to determine if Ulrich was mentally competent to stand trial. On...

Here is a staggering estimate: 75% of victims of child sexual abuse material are reportedly under the age of 12, 63% under the age of eight. Children are more likely to be abused by someone they have a relationship with, either virtual...

By Michael P. Johnson Prior to March 2020, when walking through the front doors of any casino resort hotel, whether it was on the Las Vegas Strip, in Atlantic City, or on the Mississippi Coast, you would typically spot a security officer,...

By a Biometrica staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the Sentencing Commission's FY2020 preliminary report showing federal offenders by type of crime Four types of offenses accounted for 86.4% of all reported cases to the United States Sentencing Commission (called "the Commission" hereon)...

By Anand Vasu The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 24 that states could restrict the open carry of guns. Justice Jay Bybee wrote in the majority opinion that: “There is no right to carry arms openly in public; nor...

By Charlotte Spencer On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, there was a key ruling in the long legal battle between gun rights activists and gun control activists in the United States. It won’t be the last ruling on gun regulation by far, but...

By Kacy Robinson There is nothing more important to a search and rescue handler than his or her canine. We have multiple tools at our disposal depending on the circumstances of the search, but without our canine partners, we are not searchers....

By Deepti Govind On Monday, March 22, 51-year-old Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley, a man who waded into ditches to rescue ducklings, a loving father to seven children, and the first officer to respond to reports of an armed man being inside a...

By a Biometrica staffer The First Step Act (FSA) of 2018 requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to collect data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) through its National Prisoner Statistics program on a number of different topics and to...

By Charlotte Spencer Congress has had several new bills proposed so far this year to address the issue of prison reform. Together, they cover the topics of youthful offenders, nonviolent offenders, elderly offenders, Covid-19, solitary confinement, monitoring of electronic communications, re-entry into...

By a Biometrica Staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the FBI's latest quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing the percentage increase/decrease in all violent crimes reported, over four consecutive quarters. On March 15, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published its latest quarterly assessment...

By Michael P. Johnson March 11, 2021, marked the 1st anniversary of Covid-19 being labeled a "pandemic." A year ago, the casino industry was turned on its ear, having to shut down. Looking back on it now, as a casino professional with...

By a Biometrica staffer The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published a new report last month with annual insights from its examinations and risk monitoring programs. The report is aimed at helping inform compliance programs at member firms of areas of importance....

By Charlotte Spencer As of March this year, there are already several bills proposed in the area of crime, prison, and law enforcement. These bills cover a wide range of topics including hate crimes, the death penalty, solitary confinement, mental health, parenthood...

By Kevin Metcalf The community of people that works on child protection is a wonderfully disparate one. There are people in law enforcement, for instance, here in the United States and elsewhere, who have willingly dedicated themselves to seeing the worst of...

Being a casino operations manager isn’t for just anyone. You need a combination of management skills, an attention to detail, be part regulatory maven, part staffing expert and part magician. One of the hardest jobs on the books is to vet and...

By a Biometrica staffer Image Source: UNODC, based on the GLOTiP report One hundred and nineteen. That's the number of countries across the world that have never had a female leader. Women serve as heads of State or Government in just 21...

By Charlotte Spencer Most know that importing merchandise produced by forced labor is wrong, but did you know that it’s also illegal? What Does The Law Say? As a result of the Tariff Act of 1930, encoded at 19 U.S.C. 1307, it...

By a Biometrica staffer Jan. 6 2021: It's a day that's been forged into the memory of an entire nation. A day that ended up bearing witness to an act of domestic terrorism the likes of which stunned the entire world. Hundreds...

By Charlotte Spencer There is a form of abuse that is still not illegal in most of the United States, not because anyone decided it should be legal, but because of a lack of awareness. It often accompanies other forms of abuse,...